- A Flickr group dedicated to collecting images for language teaching and learning
- Copyright safe, royalty free images
- A collection of photos in the public domain
- Royalty free images for classroom use from a variety of countries
- Has lots of professional photos from Spanish-speaking countries--look for the terms of use--standard license means you can use it in your PowerPoints and etc. Sometimes you just need to notify the photographer (using the comments feature)
- Extensive, searchable collection of drawings teachers can use to create materials for world language classes
Multimedia (Audio & Video)
- A Creative Commons project that lets you download, remix, and share music (including songs from popular artists)
- Community Video, an Internet Archive Project that allows you to download video for free (check the Creative Commons Licenses on each one to see if you can modify it)
- Free, copyright safe sounds (i.e., sound effects, not music)
- Free, copyright safe music
- Free classical music, searchable by composer, genre, form, instrument, performer, and period
- Wikipedia article with links to open source films
- Allows you to stream copyright safe music from your wiki or website
Text
- A collection of documents in the public domain
- Collections of primary source documents and multimedia materials from American history including ads, culture, literature, maps, music, etc.
- Audiobooks in a variety of languages
- Free, downloadable e-books of texts in the public domain
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- Interactive game with simple questions and answers about copyright
Table of Contents
Post your favorite sources for copyright safe materials here.
Self-evaluation
Key Concepts & Principles
Copyright Chart Page 1 (PDF)
Copyright Chart Page 2 (PDF)
A Fairy Use Tale
Copyright & Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web
Images
Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Russian
Spanish
Multimedia (Audio & Video)
Text
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